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Mr. Speaker, I must admit that I am shocked to be rising in the House of Commons to announce this government's deficit. Usually, the Liberals would be the ones to announce the deficit in their economic update. However, they came to the House of Commons to table an economic update without even wanting to give a speech about it. They do not even have a finance minister who is brave enough to talk ab…
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Mr. Speaker, absolutely everything is broken today, and 70-plus per cent of Canadians agree with me on that. The borders are broken. There are half a million people here illegally, according to the government's own documents. The immigration system is broken. We now have refugee camps, something we only used to see in third world countries. They are being set up across our country in formerly tran…
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Mr. Speaker, I find it incredible that, even when there is no Liberal minister willing to defend the temporary two-month GST tax trick, the NDP is there to defend it for them.
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Mr. Speaker, we have a tax trick that will cost more to administer than it will save anybody, that many vendors are not even implementing and that will be gone before it starts. The NDP member has—
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I would be happy to talk about jobs, Mr. Speaker. My first job here was to help pass the Federal Accountability Act to crack down on the corruption that we have seen on the Liberal side. I then helped cut the GST so that Canadians could save when they made every single consumer purchase; it was cut from 7% to 6% to 5%. I worked with former prime minister Harper to help balance the budget and rebui…
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Mr. Speaker, it is such a tough question; I almost did not want to stand up and answer it for a second there. It is a big mess. It is an incredible mess the Prime Minister will leave behind when he takes a run, and I understand that might happen any minute, as carbon tax Carney is lining up. We almost wonder if carbon tax Carney planned it all this way. He is the top economic adviser. He pushed al…
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Mr. Speaker, this weak Prime Minister has lost control of immigration, the border, spending, inflation, the debt and even his ministers. According to The Globe and Mail, relations between the Prime Minister and the finance minister “have chilled as tensions grow over the push for politically strategic spending measures such as the GST holiday... risking the minister missing her pledge to keep the …
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister who is trying to muzzle his own Minister of Finance. She promised to keep the deficit to $40 billion to prevent higher inflation, which is very expensive for Canadians who cannot feed their children. Now, he has forced his minister to break that promise and he is attacking her in the papers. Why is the Prime Minister forcing his minister to break her promise a…
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The weak Prime Minister has lost control; he has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration and lost control of spending, debt and inflation. Now he has lost control of his own cabinet. Yesterday The Globe and Mail reported that there is a big fiscal feud that has broken out between the Prime Minister and his finance minister. At stake is that the finance minister wanted to run a gig…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's Liberal MPs are not speaking out against him, not because he is allowing so much liberty but because he is so weak, and there is nothing worse than a weak bully. He is now cracking down on his own finance minister. Some feminist he is. On this side of the House, I lead by inspiration, while the Prime Minister leads by intimidation. Once again, why will the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, he has been the Prime Minister for nine years. Let us review the chronology: Not even eight months ago, his minister said the deficit would not exceed $40 billion, the guardrail. Then he went and got his banker friend, carbon tax Carney, to become his top economic adviser, stripping the power away from his finance minister. Suddenly, the guardrail was broken. Is he really going to sub…
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister said in 2022, “This is a line we shall not cross.” Then she listed three lines: one, that the deficit would only go down, and it went up; two, that she would pay off the COVID debt, and not only has she not paid off a penny, but the debt has gone up; and three, that the debt-to-GDP ratio would only drop, and it has risen. Did the finance minister voluntarily cross…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is silencing his own finance minister. She was already wildly irresponsible with the public purse, but not irresponsible enough for him. She wanted to keep the deficit at an already massive $40 billion, and he said it was not enough. Canadians are not paying enough inflation, according to him. Once again, did she voluntarily smash through her fiscal guardrail or did…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians do not have confidence in him, nor does his own party or his own cabinet, nor, apparently, does the Bank of Canada, which today was forced into an emergency panicked rate cut to confront the collapsing economy. The Governor of the Bank of Canada said the economy is softer than he expected it would be, and despite the fact that inflation is rising, that all four measures of i…
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Mr. Speaker, do members know what is up? Inflation is up and unemployment is up. Inflation is not only up; every single measure of inflation is now above its target. Unemployment is up. It is at 10% in Toronto now—
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You know what is up, Mr. Speaker? Inflation is up. All four measures of inflation are now above target. Unemployment is up. In Toronto, it is over 10%. What else is up is housing costs. They have actually doubled. They have risen more than in any other country in the G7. What else is up? Food bank use is up. It, too, has doubled, with two million people lined up at the food bank. What else is up a…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Bloc Québécois again voted to authorize an additional $21 billion in federal spending by this centralizing government, in other words, a total of $500 billion in inflationary, centralizing and Liberal spending, more power for the government here in Ottawa and less money in the pockets of Quebeckers. What did the Prime Minister offer the leader of the Bloc Québécois to c…
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Mr. Speaker, that money will never do what he is saying it will do. It will only serve to bulk up the bureaucracy in Ottawa, as usual. The leader of the Bloc Québécois said that he has to support the government's spending by voting for tax credits or else the government will simply stop operating, much like in the United States, but we are not in the United States. Here, if a vote fails, the gover…
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Mr. Speaker, he is again imagining things. His program does not build homes; it builds bureaucracy. The only density is in his head. Our policy was—
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister and the entire Liberal caucus voted against taking the GST off new homes, which would have saved up to $50,000 for a young couple trying to buy a home and almost $3,000 a year in lower mortgage payments, and would have stimulated an extra 30,000 additional homes built. Even the Prime Minister's own housing adviser said that this was the best housing polic…
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Mr. Speaker, it is in his imagination. That is all. The Prime Minister wants to tax people up to $50,000 when they are buying a home so he can give more money to the very bureaucrats who block homebuilding. It is not that his housing funds do not help. It is worse. They actually block new homebuilding with more bureaucrats. Why do we not follow my plan to slash the bureaucracy, axe the tax and bui…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Bloc Québécois voted against eliminating the GST on homes. I would like someone to explain this to me. A self-proclaimed sovereignist party wants to take money out of the pockets of young Quebeckers who are buying homes and give it to the most centralizing government in history, the big bad feds. Why is a sovereignist party supporting the concentration of power and Queb…
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Mr. Speaker, we want to put up to $50,000 in the pockets of a young Quebec family buying a house, after Liberal programs have managed to double the cost of housing and, in fact, triple the cost of rent in Montreal. The Bloc Québécois is voting to feed the federal bureaucracy with Quebeckers' money. The Conservative Party is the only party that wants to help young Quebeckers be sovereign and keep m…
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Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control of our borders. He started by teaming up with the British Columbia NDP to decriminalize fentanyl. He has kept 80% of fentanyl precursor ingredients legal. He allows 99% of shipping containers to come into our country uninspected. He passed Bill C-5, which gives house arrest to the kingpins who produce that poison. Will the Prime Minister revers…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister's weird, woke, liberalization ideology that has caused the 47,000 deaths and the 200% increase in overdoses. However, just like the Prime Minister has lost control of the drugs, he has lost control of immigration. Do not take my word for it. The Globe and Mail said that the Liberal government “lost control of Canada's immigration system”, highlighting that the…
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Mr. Speaker, we have the best country with the worst Prime Minister. He is weak, woke and wasteful, and he has lost track of 30,000 people who have been ordered deported but have now vanished. Now, we have millions of other people who are going to come up for exit when their permits and visas expire over the next year and a half, and the Prime Minister will not tell us what the plan is to get peop…
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Mr. Speaker, that is another weak response from a weak Prime Minister who has lost control of our immigration system. Three Chileans who are in Canada illegally escaped from a holding centre in Laval. In addition to these three fugitives, there are nearly 750 foreigners in Quebec who are considered to be dangerous but who this government is incapable of deporting. What is more, apparently the gove…
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, it is time for an election. Yesterday, the Bloc Québécois voted several times against an election. It voted to keep this government in power. There is going to be a debate and the leader of the Bloc Québécois is going to have to deal with the fact that the Conservatives want to eliminate the GST on new housing and the Bloc does not. The leader of the Bloc Québécois wants to creat…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a weak Prime Minister who has lost control of spending, debt and inflation. Workers are now forced to fight to make up lost wages. That is why, last year, Canada had more strikes than in any year since 1981, that is, since the last Trudeau was breaking the country and its economy. Canadians are now suffering because they cannot get their donations to charities, small businesse…
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Mr. Speaker, this weak Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of spending, debt and inflation. This has forced workers to fight for wage increases. Last year, we had the highest number of strikes since 1981, when his father broke the economy. Now the strike at Canada Post is turning out to be very costly for non-profit organizations and small businesses. It is costing our economy a l…
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Mr. Speaker, let us see what the police have to say about that. After a 116% increase in gun crime under this Prime Minister and a repeat violent offender out on early parole allegedly murdered a 34-year-old woman in Toronto on Sunday. The Toronto Police had this question for the Prime Minister: “How was this person, with their history, allowed to access a firearm and be alone with a partner when …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has not banned a single gun. He spent over $60 million to fail to take a single gun off the road. He has had to give an amnesty to reverse all of the announced gun bans that he did, standing in front of a cartoon image of a scary Hollywood-style gun. What has been the sum total of all of this? It has been a 116% increase in gun violence since he became Prime Ministe…
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Mr. Speaker, he admitted he does not even know what an assault rifle is, let alone be able to ban one. He spent $60 million and his government admits it did not take a single firearm off the road. There has been a 116% increase in gun violence under his leadership and 99% of the shipping containers that come in are not inspected at all, even though the previous Conservative government increased th…
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Mr. Speaker, it is not clear that the finance minister is actually in it with the Prime Minister. According to the Globe and Mail, the Prime Minister's office “has given internal direction for an aggressive and possibly costly policy agenda” that threatens to “[blow] past the spending targets she has already...publicly [stated] for the government”. The finance minister promised the deficit would b…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is weak and has lost control. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration, lost control of the public purse and lost control of his own cabinet. We have learned that he is squabbling with the Minister of Finance, who wants a large deficit of $40 billion, while he wants an even larger deficit on steroids, bigger than $40 billion. Who is going to w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance disagrees. She promised that the deficit would not exceed $40 billion. She opposed the $6‑billion vote-buying Christmas gimmick, but the Prime Minister forced this inflationary policy on her anyway. He admits that deficits fuel inflation, and that is why they promised to keep the deficit at $40 billion. Will he keep his promise, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control of the border, lost control of immigration and lost control of spending, debt and inflation. Now he has lost control of his own cabinet. We have learned in the Globe and Mail today that the Prime Minister's finance minister is having her people speak out against him. She wants a large deficit of $40 billion. He, on the other hand, wants an even…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has admitted that deficits drive inflation. His minister admitted the same thing. That is why she said the deficit would not go above $40 billion. That was her guardrail. They were not going to smash into that guardrail. The minister is like a bus driver saying she is going to come just short of hitting the $40-billion guardrail, and then some crazy lunatic comes in…
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moved: That, (i) whereas the government's experiment with radical liberalization of drugs has contributed to the deaths of 47,000 Canadians and a 200% annual increase of such deaths compared to 2016, (ii) whereas of 2024, over 80% of accidental opioid deaths involve fentanyl, (iii) whereas the reduced sentences for drug kingpins and lax borders contributes to these deaths and threatens our trade r…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a silent killer, relentless and ruthless, marching through our streets. It is stealing breath, stopping hearts, breaking spirits and numbing pain only to multiply it. There is an invisible force, malicious and merciless, taking our loved ones one by one and turning vibrant lives into fading echoes. How do we fight this silent killer, when its poison lingers everywhere in the …
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Madam Speaker, the member had no facts of his own, none whatsoever. This is from a party whose leader is too weak to stand up for our country, who has lost control of our borders and our immigration. I went and met with him to try and help him because he was so weak, and he showed up for the meeting late and dishevelled, as though he had just gotten out of bed. He had no plan whatsoever to defend …
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Madam Speaker, the reality is that Bill C‑5 allows drug dealers and producers to serve Netflix sentences and stay out of jail. The Bloc Québécois made a serious mistake by supporting Bill C‑5. That is why the Bloc Québécois had to do a U-turn and support a Conservative bill. I do not know if the member knows which bill he voted for, but he later voted to repeal Bill C‑5. I do not know if the Bloc …
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Madam Speaker, the NDP member joins with his boss, the Liberal Prime Minister, to blame the Harper government for the misery that is happening on his own streets. The prior government has not been in power for nine years. I will point him to the fact that, when we left office, there were almost 2,000 more CBSA officers than there were when we took office. That is an increase, not a decrease. If th…
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Madam Speaker, I do not know the member's mayor, so I cannot comment on that, but I know that his mayor's MP is incompetent. We know that because since he became the MP, housing costs have doubled in Saint John. He was not able to get the Energy East pipeline approved. He squeals away that he does not like the carbon tax but then votes to quadruple that same tax. I do not know if that is duplicity…
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Madam Speaker, we just learned that the Minister of Finance will finally present her economic statement on December 16. This will be the first time in the history of our country that the fall economic statement is presented so late. The government dragged its feet because it wants to avoid revealing that this Prime Minister is weak and has lost control of spending, deficits, taxes and the cost of …
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Madam Speaker, he says that eliminating the GST on apartments has not yet reduced the cost of houses. That is because houses are not apartments. There is a difference between an apartment and a house. Eliminating taxes on apartments is about reducing the cost of apartments. Eliminating the GST on houses is about reducing the cost of houses. Does that help the member?
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Madam Speaker, I will answer the member's questions very directly. We are not going to be bringing in a right-to-work law. The second question is whether we will stand with the New Democrats for unions. That is exactly what I am asking him to do today. We have a motion in the House of Commons today that condemns the government for robbing workers of the right to strike and votes non-confidence in …
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Mr. Speaker, just before Christmas, under a blanket of snow, the minister is finally going to present her economic update. She will do so after this Prime Minister has doubled the national debt, adding more debt than all other previous prime ministers combined. He has doubled the cost of housing and created more bureaucracy, which prevents housing construction. He has doubled the number of people …
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Mr. Speaker, he is so proud of an update that his government wants to bury in the snow. We want the government to stop taxing people. Eliminating the GST on new homes would be one way to end the inflationary taxes that have driven up the cost of living. We also want the government to keep its promises. The minister said that the deficit would not exceed $40 billion. Will she keep that promise?
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Mr. Speaker, after doubling the debt with inflationary spending, doubling the cost of housing with more bureaucracy that blocks building, doubling the number of people using food banks with carbon taxes on farmers and truckers who bring us our food, finally the Liberals are planning a fall update but will do it in the snow on December 16. Our message is “stop”: Stop the inflationary spending; stop…
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